A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Jay Rabinowitz is an ACE-certified American film editor and commercial editor. He is most frequently associated with the films of Jim Jarmusch and Darren Aronofsky. Rabinowitz studied at the New York University, where he graduated in 1984 at the undergraduate Cinema Studies program. During the program he learned of a film in pre-production that needed an intern, which turned out to be Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law (1986). He is credited as the assistant editor for several films in the next years, including Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989-edited by Melody London). Starting with Night on Earth (1991), Rabinowitz has been the editor for seven of Jarmusch's films: Dead Man (1995), Year of the Horse (1997), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), and The Limits of Control (2009). Mr. Rabinowitz' editing for Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000) won best editing awards from the Online Film Critics Society. He was also nominated for the Online Film Critics' award for Mr. Aronofsky's The Fountain (2006).
Additional Editing:
2002 Secretary
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Apprentice Sound Editor:
1987 Dead of Winter
2002 Secretary
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Assistant Editor:
1987 Dead of Winter
1989 Mystery Train
2002 Secretary
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Assistant Sound Editor:
1987 Dead of Winter
1989 Mystery Train
1990 Alice
2002 Secretary
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Consulting Editor:
1987 Dead of Winter
1989 Mystery Train
1990 Alice
2002 Secretary
2021 Aleph
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Editor:
1987 Dead of Winter
1989 Mystery Train
1990 Alice
1991 Night on Earth
1992 Last Supper
1993 When Pigs Fly
1994 Jimmy Hollywood
1994 The Bowery
1995 Clean, Shaven
1995 Dead Man
1996 Mother Night
1997 Year of the Horse
1998 Affliction
1998 Richard Lester!
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000 Homicide: The Movie
2000 Requiem for a Dream
2002 8 Mile
2002 Bomb the System
2002 Secretary
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2004 Coffee and Cigarettes
2004 The Stepford Wives
2005 Broken Flowers
2006 The Fountain
2007 I'm Not There
2008 Explicit Ills
2009 The Limits of Control
2009 Women Without Men
2011 Rampart
2011 The Adjustment Bureau
2011 The Tree of Life
2012 First Point
2014 Rosewater
2016 Junction 48
2018 Boy Erased
2019 White Echo
2020 Irresistible
2021 Aleph
2021 Oslo
2021 The United States vs. Billie Holiday
2022 Beast
2024 IF
2025 O'Dessa
Music Editor:
1987 Dead of Winter
1989 Mystery Train
1990 Alice
1991 Night on Earth
1992 Last Supper
1993 When Pigs Fly
1994 Jimmy Hollywood
1994 The Bowery
1995 Clean, Shaven
1995 Dead Man
1996 Mother Night
1997 Year of the Horse
1998 Affliction
1998 Richard Lester!
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000 Homicide: The Movie
2000 Requiem for a Dream
2002 8 Mile
2002 Bomb the System
2002 Secretary
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2004 Coffee and Cigarettes
2004 The Stepford Wives
2005 Broken Flowers
2006 The Fountain
2007 I'm Not There
2008 Explicit Ills
2009 The Limits of Control
2009 Women Without Men
2011 Rampart
2011 The Adjustment Bureau
2011 The Tree of Life
2012 First Point
2014 Rosewater
2016 Junction 48
2018 Boy Erased
2019 White Echo
2020 Irresistible
2021 Aleph
2021 Oslo
2021 The United States vs. Billie Holiday
2022 Beast
2024 IF
2025 O'Dessa
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.